"If I remember correctly, I believe it would be the Sapphire gem."

"Which of the five sapphires, though? I know one of the three small ones is Mayor Boyd's gem, but no idea who rest map to."

Don scurried off the table so Roger could do his work

Rodger looked at Don, then at Captain Scott. "Should I just cast it at any random gem, and pray I get lucky a second time, than?"


OOC: Did Captains Scott and Jordan complete their phone call by this time? I never saw Captain Jordan responding anywhere, and being in the room, well, I would have thought we'd both overhear it.

Captain Scott frowned as he was unable to get a hold of Captain Jordan.

"Not sure where Jordan is but from what Derring said, it sounds like some seriously bad news."

"It is, well if you can't reach him can you call my family  adn tell them I'm okay? Just hold the phone up to my 'face' adn I'll do the talking."

Captain Scott placed a call to the Derring residence.

Family? With Ellen's loss, I didn't know he had any left, Rodger wondered, still unaware of Diantha's existence.

He sat in his seat quietly, listening to what was said with half an ear, but most of his thoughts were on trying to remember things from the day he'd delivered the suits. If he could recall peoples' numbers, and test multiple gems, he might be able to figure out a pattern and be able to make a more accurate guess at which gem was the bond to Johnny Nickel.

Sapphire 2....Nickel's gem was able to come up for Rodger as he searched.

Not paying attention to Rodger, Captain Scott continued to hold the phone while Don conversed with his family.

Standing up, and moving a bit away (as best the office allowed) from the phone call, Rodger looked for a decent place to summon the next scorpion centaur, this Girtabilu creature that Don was at the moment.

Deciding on a spot, Rodger returned to his spell menu, the same spell still on top to use again, and clicked. He aimed at the gem be believed (hoped) was Jon Nickel's. "Summon Girtabilu!"

And the spell animation repeated, as it had before.





OOC: I assume you mean the second sapphire gem, the first in the small ones? Since prisoner #2 was Captain Scott himself. Msg #12 in this same thread.

St. Johnny soon appeared in the room.

"Whoa....wuzzat...the end of the world is upon...oh it's you, Eskin..."

Rodger grinned at Johnny the scorpion monster. "Shhh..." he warned in a low voice, "Don's on the phone with someone who isn't one of us."

"Has something been going on?" he continued in a half-whisper. "Captain Scot said some of us weren't answering when he tried to get in touch. We were afraid you might have been, well, in trouble."

Nickel looked around.

"I'm not sure Rodg. I was..um..some place dark, I thought I heard a voice or something..and next thing I know..I'm here.."

"Well, the 'I'm here' part was me summoning you. How'd you get in this dark place? What did it sound like the voice was saying?" Rodger said to Nickel, still keeping his voice down.

"I was watching at my post at the mall..and then everything went black. Then a man's voice loomed over me, saying that the Light of Truth would shine upon us..and then I was here.."

"How peculiar. The light of truth? That sounds like something up a religious alley," Rodger mused, crossing one arm over his chest and resting the other on it as he fingered his mustache, thinking. "Once they're done with the phone, tell Captain Scott everything you can remember. You weren't the only clown kidnapped recently." He sounded worried, and he was.

Nickel nodded, then sat quietly as he waited for Captain Scott.

Rodger also waited for Don and Captain Scott to finish. He sat back down and worried, thinking over what he knew of and praying that there were sensible, mundane explanations for the kidnappings.

Captain Scott slammed the phone.

"Damnit..I can't get a hold of Jordan.." he said as he continued to hold the phone for Don.

Rodger quirked an eyebrow, but said nothing. For all he knew, the officer that Captain Scott was trying to reach could be on the toilet, in a meeting, questioning a suspect, kidnapped too, or deep in trying to deal with a critical case. He was just a civilian, despite being the Wizard, and didn't know much about the internal niceties of the police department or the habits of individual cops.

Having finsihed his phone call the scoprion creature asked. "Are you trying his office or his cell phone?"

"Trying his office. Geez...didn't think the cell phone was necessary. Guess I'm trying that next..."

Rodger stayed quiet in his chair, listening. For some reason part of his thoughts went veering off into the wild blue yonder, wondering (in the privacy of his skull) what the NADs were up to tonight.

Jordan picked up check the messaging thread.

Captain Scott continued to converse with Captain Jordan.